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Second that. Would like to hear more about how it came about. Probably AI generated? Great nonetheless.

This whole writeup is basically the verbatim prompt recipe for anyone to just whip it up themselves.

Blocking the final result is no longer a real block, when all it requires is a vague prompt to replicate it.

We've entered a strange territory.

Of course you can, but it's still a really great collection of good practices that lead you to a better place than if you didn't to do any of it.

I apologize for write "just" FTS. I know there is a lot of work involved and your article summed it up pretty damn well, in a way that makes it approachable for someone new to the topic.

I will keep a note of this article for next time I am asked about this topic.

Very little of this is RAG but rather just FTS with clever reformulation and re-ranking.

RAG is about providing an grounded response, given the actual data in the corpus.

Great article and content, nonetheless!!

My take is that they love apps for the simple reason they show as easily clickable buttons to enter. Most dread having to type a Web address for something they regularly do. Few know that they can create an "app-icon" from any Web page. Should be advertised more.

I had a new colleague on the team, who I had to on-board. I gave him a few simple tasks, just to get him into the whole setup. He literally copy/pasted my task description into Claude and asked it to complete the task. To begin with, I didn't suspect this, so when he asked for more help, I gladly wrote up a detailed explanation with more information and detail for him to learn. Little did I know, he never read it but put it directly into Claude. Not even sure how I should handle it, but my first instinct was to get extremely annoyed.

Maybe this is just how things are going to be. But in that case, I'm done spending my time being a helpful idiot talking indirectly to a robot through another person.

SQL, OLAP, Primary use case is fast aggregations on append only data, like usage analytics.

It's fast, it's........ really fast!!

But you need to get comfortable with their extended SQL dialect that forces you to think a little different than with usual SQL if you want to keep perf high.

This seems like the kind of things you can do before you get kids and have real responsibilities. Then you need to get back to reality. Sounds fun though and I would have liked to experience it.

Exactly.

It's just a natural maturity-curve that every new piece of tech inevitably goes through.

Tech on the maturity curve:

ICE cars: settled

EV cars: rising

PC's: settled

Phones: settled

Smart TV's: slowly rising still

Wearables: rising

Great read, although a shame that it didn't go any further than adding the write cache SSD solution, which must have been many years ago. I was hoping for a little more recent info on the EBS architecture.

This is absolutely wild

Did Douglas Adams travel in time.... this is scarily accurate!!! My BMW keeps turning off the volume if I wave at anything in the direction of the touchscreen. There is a little infrared camera near the roof that can sense hand-gestures and turn volume up or down ... and lots of other things.

Douglas Adams so spot on I want to cry!

It's inevitable. We are in a normalization phase right now. Soon, kids will just shrug at stuff like that, because they will all know it's likely fake and therefore not care much about it.

However, I feel really bad for those who has to be the ones to go through the pain of this phase though.

Insane find. Brilliant!!